Europe News Desk!! In separate incidents in Iraq, gunmen killed an army pilot officer, a member of a paramilitary force and a doctor. Security sources gave this information. A local police source told Xinhua news agency on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday that unidentified armed men shot and killed Iraqi Air Force officer Saad Mohsen Marzouk, who was driving in the city of Fallujah, about 50 km west of the capital Baghdad. . Al-Obaidi of Kirkuk police told Xinhua that in a separate incident, gunmen opened fire on a joint checkpoint manned by police and paramilitary Hashd Shaabi in the city of Kirkuk, about 250 kilometers north of Baghdad. Al-Obaidi said the attackers killed a member of the Hashad Shaabi and wounded a policeman before fleeing the scene, Xinhua news agency reported. Alaa Al Saadi of Diyala police told the news agency that unidentified gunmen killed Ahmed Talal al-Madfai, a renowned cardiologist in the eastern province of Diyala on Wednesday. Sporadic attacks still plague Iraq despite an improvement in the security situation following the defeat of the Islamic State group’s extremist militants across the country in 2017.
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